Pipe Definition–noun | 1. | a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc. | | 2. | a tube of wood, clay, hard rubber, or other material, with a small bowl at one end, used for smoking tobacco, opium, etc. | | 3. | a quantity, as of tobacco, that fills the bowl of such a smoking utensil. | | 4. | Music. | a. | a tube used as, or to form an essential part of, a musical wind instrument. | | b. | a musical wind instrument consisting of a single tube of straw, reed, wood, or other material, as a flute, clarinet, or oboe. | | c. | one of the wooden or metal tubes from which the tones of an organ are produced. | | d. | a small end-blown flute played with one hand while the other beats a small drum. | | | 5. | Nautical. | b. | the sound of a boatswain's pipe. | | | 6. | the call or utterance of a bird, frog, etc. | | 7. | pipes, Informal. the human vocal cords or the voice, esp. as used in singing. | | 8. | Usually, pipes. | b. | a set of flutes, as a panpipe. | | c. | Informal. a tubular organ or passage of a human or animal body, esp. a respiratory passage: to complain of congested pipes. | | | 9. | any of various tubular or cylindrical objects, parts, or formations, as an eruptive passage of a volcano or geyser. | | 10. | Mining. | a. | a cylindrical vein or body of ore. | | b. | (in South Africa) a vertical, cylindrical matrix, of intrusive igneous origin, in which diamonds are found. | | | 11. | Metallurgy. a depression occurring at the center of the head of an ingot as a result of the tendency of solidification to begin at the bottom and sides of the ingot mold. | | 12. | Botany. the stem of a plant. | –verb (used without object) | 13. | to play on a pipe. | <
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ngbirds piping at dawn. | –verb (used with object) | 17. | to convey by or as by pipes: to pipe water from the lake. | | 18. | to supply with pipes. | | 19. | to play (music) on a pipe or pipes. |
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| 20. | to summon, order, etc., by sounding the boatswain's pipe or whistle: all hands were piped on deck. | | 21. | to bring, lead, etc., by or as by playing on a pipe: to pipe dancers. | | 22. | to utter in a shrill tone: to pipe a command. | | 23. | to trim or finish with piping, as an article of clothing. | | 24. | Cookery. to force (dough, frosting, etc.) through a pastry tube onto a baking sheet, cake or pie, etc. | | 25. | Informal. to convey by an electrical wire or cable: to pipe a signal from the antenna. | | 26. | Slang. to look at; notice: Pipe the cat in the hat. | —Verb phrases | 27. | pipe down, Slang. to stop talking; be quiet: He shouted at us to pipe down. | | 28. | pipe up, | a. | to begin to play (a musical instrument) or to sing. | | b. | to make oneself heard; speak up, esp. as to assert oneself. | | c. | to increase in velocity, as the wind. | | From DictionaryRelated topics from Britannicapipe
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